[SOLVED] Clip Count In for Session View?

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Ironlion
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[SOLVED] Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by Ironlion » Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:00 pm

So I'm trying out Ableton Live 9. I'm very happy with what ableton can do; however, I keep running into one (potentially deal breaking) problem. I use the session view and I need some kind of indicator of when the clip recording is going to start.

It looks like the only usable solution is to use a foot pedal with global quantize set to "1 bar". If I set it to anything else, I can't make sense of what's happening. For example, if I set global quantize to 8 bars, then watch the bar counter at the top of ableton, it starts recording after 4 bars?!? If I set GQ to 4 bars, then it just start recording immediately (on the next downbeat). I'm a pretty smart person, but I have yet to make sense of this. The other problem with the 8 eight bar quantize value is that it forces me to record an eight bar loop for the price of having more than a partial bar before recording starts.

I'd really like to have more that a partial bar to get ready to lay down the next clip. It's just too tight, but I don't see any way around it? The real issue seems to be that countdown is available when coming in from a full stop, but not when clips are running.

It would be great if there was a "master countdown to record" pie graph that references whatever clip is armed and about to record.
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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by eddiex » Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:35 pm

go to preferences then go to record/warp/launch. there, you can set a count in for 1, 2 or 4 bars. it does a little countdown, and shows it in the arrangement position display up at the top. it does it in both arrangement and session view.
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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by eddiex » Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:45 pm

yeah, they don't seem to have a good option for punching in.
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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by yur2die4 » Mon Sep 08, 2014 1:45 am

It'd be nice if there was a max4live device which counted bars so you could know how far into an 8 bar interval Live's transport was running at.

So if it showed 5, you would know that there were two (and a partial) bars counting in before it'd start recording.


It does help though to keep your clips and launching extremely organized if you work in 4 bar quantization, always make sure that every idea is within a 4 bar context. If you have something working at a 2 bar interval, it could through off your assumptions and you might begin recording two bars too early or too late.

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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by Ironlion » Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:16 pm

@yur2die4

Thanks, that's a helpful perspective.
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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by Ironlion » Fri Sep 12, 2014 4:30 pm

My solution to this is to create an 8 bar clip that runs all the time (with global quantization set to 8 bars). That way I can at least watch the pie graph on that track and see where I am at any given moment within the 8 bars.

My next step is to make a feature request for a large (i.e., easily visible) GQ pie chart somewhere in the session view UI.
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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by yur2die4 » Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:11 am

That's pretty clever! Nice technique. I'll keep it in mind incase I do some similar things.

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Re: Clip Count In for Session View?

Post by Ironlion » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:48 pm

I ended up creating a GQ visualizer: https://tinyurl.com/59jwrudx

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